personationn.

Brit.

/ˌpəːsəˈneɪʃn/,

/ˌpəːsnˈeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌpərsnˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: personate v., -ion suffix¹.

Etymology: < personate v. + -ion suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin personatio possession of grammatical person (13th cent. in a British source), personification, in theology (c1367 in a British source), a person (16th cent.). With sense 2 compare slightly earlier personating n.

1. The dramatic or literary representation or depiction of a character; an instance or example of this. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character

personage1534

personation1589

impersonating1609

personating1615

impersonification1787

impersonation1792

personification1814

impersonization1890

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 200 (margin) Prosopopeia, or the Counterfait in personation.

1634 J. Barton Art of Rhetorick vi. 27 Mr. Smiths [sic] personation of Nebuchadnezzar hath in it a prettie Revocation.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 112 Men will not be..consider'd by the Height of their Character, but for the Decency of Personation.

1758 J. Reed Madrigal & Trulletta i. i. (note) 6 In all his theatrical personations he was so exact a copyer of nature, that it was a proverb in his day.., Nature and Garrick are the same.

1796 G. Colman Iron Chest (front matter) p. viii The candid observers, I trust, will allow that Mr. Kemble is thoroughly adequate to such a personation.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 66 He [sc. Shakespeare] was fortunate in the personation of his characters.

1873 B. Harte Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands 161 Her specialty lay in the personation of youthful masculine character.

1904 L. F. Baum Marvelous Land of Oz Ded. 4 To those excellent good fellows..whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children.

1999 Shakespeare Q. 50 385 Such foci as antitheatrical and reforming discourses, the emergence of stage personation, and the vexed relations of state and stage.

2. The action of assuming a character, or of passing oneself off as someone else, esp. for fraudulent purposes; spec. (Criminal Law) the action of casting a vote under a false name. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > act or instance of > assuming persona

personation1622

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 113 One of the strangest Examples of a Personation, that euer was in Elder or Later Times.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. 218 Under the head of offences by falsehood may be comprehended, 1. Simple falsehoods. 2. Forgery. 3. Personation. 4. Perjury.

1849 F. W. Thomas Boarding School Scenes ii. 17 ‘Damn it,’ said he, speaking in his proper person, for he began to forget his personation.

1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 12 She..assum[ed] the character of his deceased wife; the scheme of this personation having evidently occurred to her, after a stolen interview.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 2/3 The Conservatives, in their anxiety to prevent ‘plugging’ (or personation), armed their scrutineers with the Kodak.

1902 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman (1907) The personation and robbery would ever after be attributed to a member of the gang who had waylaid and murdered the new manager.

1980 Halsbury's Laws of Eng. xv. 334 Mens rea is an essential ingredient in personation... If a person innocently votes in the name of another this does not amount to personation.

1995 Valley News (Vermont) 20 Sept. a1/5 Fisher sentenced Baldasaro to..30 days for false personation of a police officer.

3. The embodiment or personification of a particular quality, idea, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > personification > [noun]

impersonation1589

personalizing1728

impersonification1784

impersonization1796

personation1832

personalization1863

1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. vii. 109 Bel's father, the very personation, in her view, of all that was decorous and proper.

1835 Biblical Repertory Oct. 599 Each appeared among us as the personation of England, and each, in his own way, has had it for his object to show how far he and his country are superior to all other people.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) v. 47 Mr. Pickwick was the very personation of kindness and humanity.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. x. xxv. 223 A very personation of the beauty and magnificence of careless, luxurious, pampered, egotistical wealth.

1989 Canad. Heritage Spring 3 (caption) Nanabush, a mythological figure of the Algonquin, is the personation of life, with the power to create life in others.

†4. concrete. A person who or thing which represents or plays another, either dramatically or by way of pretence. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation

form?c1225

figurea1340

likeness1340

print1340

nebshaftc1350

resemblancea1393

visagea1400

similitude?a1425

representationc1450

simulacre1483

representa1500

semblance1513

idea1531

image1531

similitudeness1547

type1559

living image1565

portrait1567

counter-figure1573

shadow1580

countershape1587

umbrage1604

medal1608

reflex1608

remonstrance1640

transcript1646

configurationa1676

phantom1690

facsimile1801

personation1851

featuring1864

zoomorph1883

1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. ii. 4 'Tis easier to gaze long On personations, masks, and effigies, Than to see live weak creatures crushed by strong.

Compounds

personation agent n. now chiefly Irish English an official employed at an election to detect people attempting to vote under a false name.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > candidate's agent preventing personation

personation agent1864

personating agent1879

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [noun] > private detection > person engaged in > employed at elections

personation agent1864

personating agent1879

1864 Times 21 Mar. 6/5 In cross-examination he said he did not know that one Alexander M'Cann was employed as a personation agent on his behalf.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 2/1 Had I been a personation agent I should most certainly have protested against every alternate voter.

1952 D. G. Neill in D. E. Butler Brit. Gen. Election of 1951 ix. 224 It was thought essential for an efficient party machine..to have at least one officially approved ‘personation’ agent to each polling-booth.

2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 Oct. 8 On polling day, personation agents are supplied with copies of the voters' register, though they are not allowed to leave polling stations with them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	personation
释义	personationn. Brit. /ˌpəːsəˈneɪʃn/, /ˌpəːsnˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌpərsnˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: personate v., -ion suffix¹. Etymology: < personate v. + -ion suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin personatio possession of grammatical person (13th cent. in a British source), personification, in theology (c1367 in a British source), a person (16th cent.). With sense 2 compare slightly earlier personating n. 1. The dramatic or literary representation or depiction of a character; an instance or example of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character personage1534 personation1589 impersonating1609 personating1615 impersonification1787 impersonation1792 personification1814 impersonization1890 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 200 (margin) Prosopopeia, or the Counterfait in personation. 1634 J. Barton Art of Rhetorick vi. 27 Mr. Smiths [sic] personation of Nebuchadnezzar hath in it a prettie Revocation. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 112 Men will not be..consider'd by the Height of their Character, but for the Decency of Personation. 1758 J. Reed Madrigal & Trulletta i. i. (note) 6 In all his theatrical personations he was so exact a copyer of nature, that it was a proverb in his day.., Nature and Garrick are the same. 1796 G. Colman Iron Chest (front matter) p. viii The candid observers, I trust, will allow that Mr. Kemble is thoroughly adequate to such a personation. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 66 He [sc. Shakespeare] was fortunate in the personation of his characters. 1873 B. Harte Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands 161 Her specialty lay in the personation of youthful masculine character. 1904 L. F. Baum Marvelous Land of Oz Ded. 4 To those excellent good fellows..whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children. 1999 Shakespeare Q. 50 385 Such foci as antitheatrical and reforming discourses, the emergence of stage personation, and the vexed relations of state and stage. 2. The action of assuming a character, or of passing oneself off as someone else, esp. for fraudulent purposes; spec. (Criminal Law) the action of casting a vote under a false name. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > act or instance of > assuming persona personation1622 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 113 One of the strangest Examples of a Personation, that euer was in Elder or Later Times. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. 218 Under the head of offences by falsehood may be comprehended, 1. Simple falsehoods. 2. Forgery. 3. Personation. 4. Perjury. 1849 F. W. Thomas Boarding School Scenes ii. 17 ‘Damn it,’ said he, speaking in his proper person, for he began to forget his personation. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 12 She..assum[ed] the character of his deceased wife; the scheme of this personation having evidently occurred to her, after a stolen interview. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 2/3 The Conservatives, in their anxiety to prevent ‘plugging’ (or personation), armed their scrutineers with the Kodak. 1902 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman (1907) The personation and robbery would ever after be attributed to a member of the gang who had waylaid and murdered the new manager. 1980 Halsbury's Laws of Eng. xv. 334 Mens rea is an essential ingredient in personation... If a person innocently votes in the name of another this does not amount to personation. 1995 Valley News (Vermont) 20 Sept. a1/5 Fisher sentenced Baldasaro to..30 days for false personation of a police officer. 3. The embodiment or personification of a particular quality, idea, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > personification > [noun] impersonation1589 personalizing1728 impersonification1784 impersonization1796 personation1832 personalization1863 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. vii. 109 Bel's father, the very personation, in her view, of all that was decorous and proper. 1835 Biblical Repertory Oct. 599 Each appeared among us as the personation of England, and each, in his own way, has had it for his object to show how far he and his country are superior to all other people. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) v. 47 Mr. Pickwick was the very personation of kindness and humanity. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. x. xxv. 223 A very personation of the beauty and magnificence of careless, luxurious, pampered, egotistical wealth. 1989 Canad. Heritage Spring 3 (caption) Nanabush, a mythological figure of the Algonquin, is the personation of life, with the power to create life in others. †4. concrete. A person who or thing which represents or plays another, either dramatically or by way of pretence. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation form?c1225 figurea1340 likeness1340 print1340 nebshaftc1350 resemblancea1393 visagea1400 similitude?a1425 representationc1450 simulacre1483 representa1500 semblance1513 idea1531 image1531 similitudeness1547 type1559 living image1565 portrait1567 counter-figure1573 shadow1580 countershape1587 umbrage1604 medal1608 reflex1608 remonstrance1640 transcript1646 configurationa1676 phantom1690 facsimile1801 personation1851 featuring1864 zoomorph1883 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. ii. 4 'Tis easier to gaze long On personations, masks, and effigies, Than to see live weak creatures crushed by strong. Compounds personation agent n. now chiefly Irish English an official employed at an election to detect people attempting to vote under a false name. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > candidate's agent preventing personation personation agent1864 personating agent1879 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [noun] > private detection > person engaged in > employed at elections personation agent1864 personating agent1879 1864 Times 21 Mar. 6/5 In cross-examination he said he did not know that one Alexander M'Cann was employed as a personation agent on his behalf. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 2/1 Had I been a personation agent I should most certainly have protested against every alternate voter. 1952 D. G. Neill in D. E. Butler Brit. Gen. Election of 1951 ix. 224 It was thought essential for an efficient party machine..to have at least one officially approved ‘personation’ agent to each polling-booth. 2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 Oct. 8 On polling day, personation agents are supplied with copies of the voters' register, though they are not allowed to leave polling stations with them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1589
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